Strategising Our Ocean Greece with our partners Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance Karen Sack on investment into building the resilience of climate-vulnerable coastal people #OurOcean Greece #OurOcean #OurOcean 2024 #climateaction

I’m thrilled to share that The Rockefeller Foundation has invited me to be a 2024 #RFBellagio Center resident! I’m joining an extraordinary group of thinkers as we work to solve some of the biggest challenges in our respective fields. Learn more here: rockfound.link/3ZIhTGL What an honor!

We’re thrilled to share Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance has been selected as a grantee of the #ICONIQImpact Ocean Co-Lab for our project that is the Sea Change Impact Financing Facility (SCIFF)!

#Ocean #CollaborativePhilanthropy #Ocean CoLab

[ #COP28 ] For #NatureDay , Ocean & Climate Platform, High-Level Climate Champions, Ocean Panel & COP28 UAE convened the Ocean High Level Event: “Powering #Ocean Breakthroughs with 100% Sustainable #Ocean Management”

The 1st panel gathered representatives of countries members of the Ocean Panel. They

Thanks Richard Benyon and Defra UK for the continued Blue Planet Fund support for Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance. We are so excited about the new projects and look forward to their work supporting the resilience of coastal communities in the Global South

I've come to Antarctica ahead of #COP28 .

Ice here is melting at record rates - raising sea levels & endangering lives & livelihoods on coasts across the world.

Let's get the climate crisis under control.

Let's protect Antarctica to protect ourselves.

Thank you Climate at State. Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance the Coastal Risk Index is about Better data leading to better decisions and better resilience outcomes. Great to see this work with AXA XL and UC Santa Cruz’s Mike Beck.

Excited to have been invited and to join the Friends of Ocean Action. Looking forward to ACTION and enjoyed the discussions yesterday on activating finance to drive investment into Océan regeneration and resilience.

Wrap-Up of Day 1: Treaty Opening for Signature

👏 The #RaceForRatification kicked-off with 68 governments signing the #HighSeasTreaty on the first day it was opened for signature, with many more expected to sign over the next couple of days #UNGA78 #BBNJ

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We finally have a scientific health check for the entire planet! 6 of 9 planetary boundaries currently transgressed. This does not mean irreversible collapse, but we are losing resilience. We are putting the stability of the entire earth system at risk.

'Six billion tonnes of sand is dredged from the world's Ocean every year, endangering marine life and coastal communities'💡- United Nations

Read the full story here - bbc.co.uk/news/world-667…

Also check out the analysis in the Stockholm Resilience Center/ORRAA report on this subject from earlier this year - shorturl.at/uvxOS

Stockholm Resilience Centre

Finally out! 1st diagnosis of the entire Planet. All the 9 Planetary Boundaries quantified defining Our Safe Operating Space on Earth. Bad news: 6 of 9 PBs breached. Good news: Window still open, we know what to measure, we can return and we win if we do! science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Amazing! Well done Lewis Pugh

Thoughts on the need for ocean and climate action before #COP28 …

Research showed how major rivers are connected to the #DeepSea through flows of sediment, transporting organic carbon to the #seafloor .

Terrestrial changes, including land-use change and deforestation, may have significant impacts on the seafloor. go.nature.com/44Ze1Di

Looking forward to speaking at GIIN with Philippe Cousteau and meeting with impact investors from around the world:

Those tie-dye wearing tree-huggers at *checks notes* Swiss Re are warning about the multi-billion cost of climate impacts again. businessgreen.com/news/4121984/i…

ORRAA’s Lindsay Getschel will be speaking at the upcoming The Commonwealth Blue Charter International Youth Day webinar on the topic of Empowering Future Stewards: Commonwealth Youth for Ocean Science, Policy and Advocacy.

🗓️ Tuesday, 8th August
🔗us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

This is the story we have all be waiting to see told. Seeing it makes it even more scary. An ocean heat record is not a good thing. Action to reduce #oceanrisk is critical now ⁦Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance⁩ bbc.com/news/science-e…